“They Shot the Piano Player” uses a fictional character to narrate its tale about the mysterious disappearance of an actual person, Brazilian samba-jazz pianist Francisco Tenório Jr. On March 18, 1976 ...

They Shot the Piano Player is a documentary about Brazilian jazz artist Francisco Tenório Júnior, who went missing in 1976. Spoiler alert, the film uncovers why Tenório Júnior is no longer here.

A self-described melomaniac, veteran Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba (director of the Oscar winner “Belle Époque”) had long nurtured an affinity for Brazilian music, including the bossa nova style ...

“They Shot the Piano Player” is one of those movies that, to hear it described, shouldn’t work — but it really does. Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba’s film is a lot of things, almost all of them ...

The 26 th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TiDF) is underway in the historic Greek port city, after an opening night ceremony that honored Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba. Trueba, ...